Here is a 143- min collection of this year's OutSouth Jury Award winners for Best Shorts.
MY OWN: My Own tells the story of Bianca, a nonbinary person, struggling to find the place for gender fluidity within the rigid world of ballet. Bianca finds their own voice, in this dance-filled rumination on coming out, not as one thing or another, but as something in between.
AS SIMPLE AS THAT: Suspicious that her son is gay, Joana shares her doubts with her husband. To her surprise, the boy's father knows much more about the subject than she imagined. After all, why was she the last to know?
CYNTHIA: A dinner party with old friends takes a shocking turn as wounds are exposed, revelations are made, and the past resurfaces. Over one tense evening, Cynthia learns that some things can never be unsaid. An emotionally bold and uplifting story about truth, love and finding the strength to move on.
SHEER QORMA is a story of belonging and acceptance, identity and family, and how it comes together under one roof, as resilient, queer Muslim women and non-binary characters of color, choose to embrace love that exists beyond their personal beliefs and social moralities. (Best Long-Form Narrative Short)
SUNDOWN TOWN: Bryce and Mitchell's trip home is disrupted after making a pit stop in a mysteriously unwelcoming town. (Best Horror Short)
BEFORE THE ERUPTION: Although a volcanic eruption can occur without any prior signal, volcanoes will most likely issue different types of warnings before the eruption begins. We barely saw it coming. (Best Young Adult Short)
STAND UP STAND OUT: Stand Up, Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement tells the story of a unique brand of activism belonging only to San Francisco--where three gay teachers’ fight for equal rights during the burgeoning Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970s, led to the blossoming of the Valencia Rose Cabaret, Café, and Restaurant, believed to be the first and only gay-owned and operated comedy club in the USA. (Best Long-Form Documentary)
WINNER! 2021 OUTSOUTH JURY AWARD: BEST HORROR SHORT
NORTH CAROLINA PREMIERE!
Bryce and Mitchell's trip home is disrupted after making a pit stop in a mysteriously unwelcoming town.
WEBSITE: Click Here
OFFICIAL SELECTION!
IndieX Fest
Paris Film Festival
Madrid Indie Film Festival
Hollywood Blood Horror Film Festival
Afro Civilization Fair
Hollywood Indie Film Festival
Director Biography - Mylo Butler
Mylo is a film director and cinematographer who is committed to telling empowering stories that are centered around the underrepresented. As of early 2021, after 5 years of freelancing and working with multiple high-profile production companies, Mylo has obtained his LLC and is the managing member of his own production company MyloB Productions, focusing on storylines that feature BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other largely marginalized communities. Turning attention to issues that desperately need to be addressed in society and that are often overlooked or forgotten. Taking from his own personal experiences, Mylo is committed to capturing incredibly powerful and compelling moments that are not only emotionally fulfilling but also moments that generate and inspire fresh meaning-full concepts and ideas that shape and develop the audience’s perspective.
Director Statement
Sundown Towns are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the US that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence. Black and brown people were met with violent repercussions if they unknowingly found themselves in the wrong town after dark. This film is directly inspired by my own traumatic experience with racism and homophobia. As a queer black man, It feels like you can never win, trying to exist in a world that constantly uses what you look like and who you choose to love as a deadly weapon against you.
- Year2021
- Runtime10 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorMylo Butler
- ScreenwriterMylo Butler & Jada Lewter
- ProducerTamia Bailey & YaJarrah Paul
- CastTashan Thornton, Michael Haggerty
Here is a 143- min collection of this year's OutSouth Jury Award winners for Best Shorts.
MY OWN: My Own tells the story of Bianca, a nonbinary person, struggling to find the place for gender fluidity within the rigid world of ballet. Bianca finds their own voice, in this dance-filled rumination on coming out, not as one thing or another, but as something in between.
AS SIMPLE AS THAT: Suspicious that her son is gay, Joana shares her doubts with her husband. To her surprise, the boy's father knows much more about the subject than she imagined. After all, why was she the last to know?
CYNTHIA: A dinner party with old friends takes a shocking turn as wounds are exposed, revelations are made, and the past resurfaces. Over one tense evening, Cynthia learns that some things can never be unsaid. An emotionally bold and uplifting story about truth, love and finding the strength to move on.
SHEER QORMA is a story of belonging and acceptance, identity and family, and how it comes together under one roof, as resilient, queer Muslim women and non-binary characters of color, choose to embrace love that exists beyond their personal beliefs and social moralities. (Best Long-Form Narrative Short)
SUNDOWN TOWN: Bryce and Mitchell's trip home is disrupted after making a pit stop in a mysteriously unwelcoming town. (Best Horror Short)
BEFORE THE ERUPTION: Although a volcanic eruption can occur without any prior signal, volcanoes will most likely issue different types of warnings before the eruption begins. We barely saw it coming. (Best Young Adult Short)
STAND UP STAND OUT: Stand Up, Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement tells the story of a unique brand of activism belonging only to San Francisco--where three gay teachers’ fight for equal rights during the burgeoning Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970s, led to the blossoming of the Valencia Rose Cabaret, Café, and Restaurant, believed to be the first and only gay-owned and operated comedy club in the USA. (Best Long-Form Documentary)
WINNER! 2021 OUTSOUTH JURY AWARD: BEST HORROR SHORT
NORTH CAROLINA PREMIERE!
Bryce and Mitchell's trip home is disrupted after making a pit stop in a mysteriously unwelcoming town.
WEBSITE: Click Here
OFFICIAL SELECTION!
IndieX Fest
Paris Film Festival
Madrid Indie Film Festival
Hollywood Blood Horror Film Festival
Afro Civilization Fair
Hollywood Indie Film Festival
Director Biography - Mylo Butler
Mylo is a film director and cinematographer who is committed to telling empowering stories that are centered around the underrepresented. As of early 2021, after 5 years of freelancing and working with multiple high-profile production companies, Mylo has obtained his LLC and is the managing member of his own production company MyloB Productions, focusing on storylines that feature BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other largely marginalized communities. Turning attention to issues that desperately need to be addressed in society and that are often overlooked or forgotten. Taking from his own personal experiences, Mylo is committed to capturing incredibly powerful and compelling moments that are not only emotionally fulfilling but also moments that generate and inspire fresh meaning-full concepts and ideas that shape and develop the audience’s perspective.
Director Statement
Sundown Towns are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the US that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence. Black and brown people were met with violent repercussions if they unknowingly found themselves in the wrong town after dark. This film is directly inspired by my own traumatic experience with racism and homophobia. As a queer black man, It feels like you can never win, trying to exist in a world that constantly uses what you look like and who you choose to love as a deadly weapon against you.
- Year2021
- Runtime10 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorMylo Butler
- ScreenwriterMylo Butler & Jada Lewter
- ProducerTamia Bailey & YaJarrah Paul
- CastTashan Thornton, Michael Haggerty